{"id":23,"date":"2026-02-22T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish-bread-starter"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:09:39","slug":"amish-bread-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/amish-bread-starter\/","title":{"rendered":"Amish Bread Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2\/3 c. sugar<br \/>\n2\/3 c. milk<br \/>\n2\/3 c. flour<br \/>\n2\/3 c. oil<br \/>\n3 eggs<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. vanilla<br \/>\n1 to 1 1\/2 tsp. cinnamon<br \/>\n1 c. sugar<br \/>\n2 c. flour<br \/>\n1 1\/4 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp. baking soda<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Combine ingredients in large airtight container with lid. Store at room temperature, do not refrigerate. Stir every day for 17 days. The recipe makes more than the 1 cup needed. But allows for evaporation. Now the starter is ready. For the next 10 days handle starter according to the following instructions. Day 1, receive the starter Day 2, 3 &amp; 4 -stir Day 5, Add 1 cup each flour, sugar and milk. Day 6 &amp; 7, stir Day 8 &amp; 9, stir Day 10, Add 1 cup flour, sugar and milk. Divide into 3 containers of 1 cup each for friends.<br \/>\nAfter removing the 3 cups of batter, mix in the following ingredients: Using a fork, beat by hand until well blended. Add 1 cup raisins and 1 cup nuts (optional).<br \/>\nGrease pans with butter, sprinkle with sugar instead of flour. Bake at 325 for 1 hour. Cool 10 minutes, remove from pans.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&quot;Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.&quot; (Ecclesiastes 9:7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amish<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/amish-bread-starter\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/amish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}